Improvement in silverware-boxes



E. STEINLEi lmprovementin Silver-.Ware Boxes, $40,129,067, y Pafentedlulyienm;

PATENT OFFICE.

EDMUND sTErNLE, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN SILVERWARE-BOXES.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 129,067, dated July 16, 1872.

Specification describing a new and Improved Silverware-Box, invented by EDMUND VSTEINLE, of the city, county, and State of New York.

The invention consists in making the bottom of a silverware or other show box adjustable, and supporting it upon the cover, which is made to correspond in size and to be de tachable for that purpose.

Figure l is a longitudinal sectional elevation of my improved ware-box as it appears when closed. Fig. 2 is partly a side view and partly a sectional elevation ofthe improved box when adjusted for exposing the ware to view. Fig. 3 is a top view of the open box with the lining removed, showingthe adjustable blockforholding the ware 5 and Fig. 4 is a transverse section of Fig. 3 on the line x' x. y

Similar letters of reference indicate' corresponding parts.

The cover A is not hinged to the sides B, but is constructed so that it fits inside of the said sides, as shown in Fig. 1. The bed C or bottom for the support of the ware is not attached to the sides, but is itted so that it can rise up to the top of the sides, or nearly so, as shown in Fig. 2, but it is connected with said sides by straps D to prevent it from rising too high. By this construction I can take the cover entirely off so that it will not be in the way and obstruct the view of other pieces in the show-case, as when it is hinged to the sides,

and I can also use it to expose the ware to better advantage than it can be in other boxes, by supporting it above the sides of the box on the cover placed under the bottom, as shown in Fig. 2. I may, of course, fasten the bottom of the box in the elevated position by other means and'not put the cover under it,.but I prefer to do so in order to dispose of the cover. The block E, which supports the springs F for clamping the handle of a spoon, is made adjustable in the lengthwise direction of the box in any approved way-for example, by being dovetailed on the piece G so as to slide forward and back, so that the box may be utilized for holding spoons or other articles with handles of different forms-for example, the block can be readily shifted to the right for holding a spoon with a handle of the form represented in dotted lines, which could not be entered between the springs where they must stand in order to hold the handle of the form represented in full lines.

Having thus described my invention,I cla-im as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent A show-box having the bottom susceptible of adjustment between the sides and of being supported on its own detachable cover, as and for the purpose set forth.

Witnesses: EDMUND STEINLE.

W. A. GRAHAM, ALEx. F. ROBERTS. 

